Ha ha, whoops again
I am pretty bad at updating this, it turns out. I guess my last rotation was pretty uneventful anyway (it was radiology- I find x-rays brutally difficult to interpret, but there's not much I can write about them that would be interesting!).
I'm on companion animal medicine right now (ie. cat and dog hospital) which is a little more along the lines of something I will probably do as a career. So far it's going pretty well- I've definitely settled into the routine of the hospital a little and I'm much better at managing my time than I was in my last small animal rotation, so that's helping. Sadly, two of my three intensive care patients coded and died after fairly intense CPR efforts. I guess I'm pretty comfortable with dog CPR now, as a result? This is what I get for grabbing the neurologic cases. Most people are intimidated by neurologic diseases, but I love the diagnostic process involved with them, so I keep volunteering to take them. Unfortunately most of them don't end well and neither of these dogs had a very good prognosis from the beginning :(. Fortunately, my third case is a little puppy with gastroenteritis and he's doing great.
Also, I got a dog! I adopted a teaching beagle from school, since I feel like I owe them something. She's doing pretty well so far! She's very happy to be out of school and in a home :).
I'm on companion animal medicine right now (ie. cat and dog hospital) which is a little more along the lines of something I will probably do as a career. So far it's going pretty well- I've definitely settled into the routine of the hospital a little and I'm much better at managing my time than I was in my last small animal rotation, so that's helping. Sadly, two of my three intensive care patients coded and died after fairly intense CPR efforts. I guess I'm pretty comfortable with dog CPR now, as a result? This is what I get for grabbing the neurologic cases. Most people are intimidated by neurologic diseases, but I love the diagnostic process involved with them, so I keep volunteering to take them. Unfortunately most of them don't end well and neither of these dogs had a very good prognosis from the beginning :(. Fortunately, my third case is a little puppy with gastroenteritis and he's doing great.
Also, I got a dog! I adopted a teaching beagle from school, since I feel like I owe them something. She's doing pretty well so far! She's very happy to be out of school and in a home :).